Happy New Year, Short Wavers! What better time to contemplate the conundrum that is zero than this, the reset of... more

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The thick-billed parrot is the only surviving parrot species native to the United States. These brightly colored birds once roamed... more

In pop culture, squirrels are often seen as jerky, excited critters on the hunt for nuts to stuff themselves with... more

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the... more

On Christmas Eve, scientists at field stations across Antarctica sing carols to one another...via shortwave. On today's episode, the Short... more

There are many statistics out there that prove that flying on a commercial airplane is safe, that plane crashes are... more

Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically... more

Old mines leave behind a a pressing problem: Huge holes that make the landscape look like a chunk of swiss... more

AI uses a lot of power. Some of the next generation data centers may use as much power as one... more